I've got three rhubarb plants in the garden now since I divided one large plant last year. I've been forcing one of them using a large upturned plastic tub. I harvested that plant yesterday. I picked most of the stalks, leaving about 5 so that the plant can recover for next year.

The harvested stalks weighed in at 1.3 kg - plenty for making a birthday rhubarb cheesecake!

Thanks Kyle. I'm trying to keep a record of how much food the garden produces as it develops. When I was planning the garden I couldn't find lots of information on how much food people were producing with forest gardens. I'm not expecting too much this year, but hopefully it will be more than last year. My aim is that it will produce most of the fruit, salad crops and herbs that we use for about two thirds of the year once it has matured some more.

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A blog following the development of a small edible forest garden in Salisbury, Wiltshire, first planted in winter 2008.